Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair

Textures: The History and Art of Black HairTextures synthesizes research in history, fashion, art, and visual culture to reassess the hair story of peoples of African descent. Long a fraught topic for African Americans and others in the diaspora, Black hair is here addressed by artists, barbers, and activists in both its historical perceptions and its ramifications for self and society today. Combs, products, and implements from the collection of hair pioneer Willie Morrow are paired here with

multicultural series

intricate dress

In masked performance

we should embrace food freedom--freedom to create flavorful meals

the book probes the resistive moves in the works of the Ghanaian writer

Drawing on original archival research and more than sixty original oral histories

Publisher : Powernomics Corp of Amer (August 1

step by step and his chronicles reveals that the African Holocaust was the greatest single crime in the world committed against a people

It's always a rush come Christmas time to find the right holiday cards

Drawing on a rich array of sources--from nineteenth-century slavery court cases and historical vignettes to writings by Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde and art by Kara Walker and Wangechi Mutu--Perry shows how the figure of the patriarch emerged as part and parcel of modernity

and their recklessness takes them right into some very serious danger

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